The prime minister and minister of health are extremist Christians but of course that has nothing to do with it.

Because my anger can contain multitudes: I’ve been talking with Labour MPs about what was coming down the line for trans communities for three years now and their response every time was “we don’t want to get into a culture war”.

Pro-tip for any budding politicians: Saying "It's a distraction" when your opponents begin a policy directly targeting a minority, one which will reverse your own governments gains for that minority, tells everyone in or supportive of that minority that you didn't give a fuck then and you don't now.

"that's not what [insert cunt here] said in 2021" honestly who cares, this isn't about principles for fucks sake. NACT were always going to support this, because years of media beatdowns and social media radicalisation has told them it's fine to do so and it gives them an easy thing to rally around.

Is AI better at coding than a junior engineer? Maybe! Will we ever have senior engineers if we replace all junior engineers with AI? We will not Is AI better at writing then a 6th grader? Maybe! Will anyone learn to write of all 6th graders use AI? They will not

If any National MPs who consider themselves queer-friendly happen to see this and think "but I had no choice" Literally quit. If that's really the only other choice you have then it's the better one and you should do it

Here’s a fun fact about Aotearoa: women’s refuges etc are ALREADY allowed to decide to provide services just to cis women. The reason they include trans people isn’t because they’re forced to by the law - it’s because women’s refuges recognise this argument for the nonsense that it is

“The U.S. and Israel bombed Ahmadinejad to free Ahmadinejad but the plan failed after Ahmadinejad did not enjoy being bombed as much as he thought he would. Meanwhile, the Kentucky 6th district has deposed its representative due to his opposition to pedophilia.” Sure. Fine. Whatever. I give up.

If we actually want the public service to get out of the 1980s (actually the long 1990s, but whatever) we need to stop giving effect to the corporate funded ideologues who cheerlead economics and public choice theory ideas from the 1980s.

Nicola "No boats, No jobs" Willis.

Nicola Willis wants to use LLMs for payroll. How is replacing one payroll administrator looking after a payroll system with three lawyers handling payroll compliance failures going to save money?

Ask her if she has sacked those staff then? Not saying she should but its her argument to explain why not with regard to.

this is a masterpiece

I want to see a headline that says "Govt to remove $300 million from Wellington economy"

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

GET THEIR ASSES FRAN

Don't let our media repeat that assertion unchallenged either. I've even seen left-leaning media like the Spinoff adopt language like "biological" in place of "cis", not recognising it for the hate speech it is Even if that bill fails, ceding that rhetorical ground would still be a failure here.

Next time you see press gallery journalists having a sook about public service departments being slow to respond to OIAs, remember how they chose to represent massive cuts to "backroom" staff 👇

Concerned about the mishmash of bad news hitting research? So are we at New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS). Read the press release – scientists.org.nz/news/13632857 1/4

Successive govts of this country have been deferring to big banks, duopoly grocery stores, tech giants, and foreign billionaires. They fundamentally do not give a shit about the economy or the people.

Not like this...not like this.

Shane is a misogynistic bully who throws his weight around when wāhine Māori stand against his extractive politics. I won't be bullied out of defending Ngāti Ruanui success. He’s normalised belittling wāhine because we are extremely informed unapologetic and prepared to challenge him! #nzpol

I so want this to be the deliberate act of a rebellious typist.

girl are you Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey because you haven't even gotten here and a bunch of weird dudes are already whining that you weren't created specifically to meet their expectations

Six-figure donations from Fast-Track Approvals beneficiaries to all three governing parties. Six-figure donations from racing breeders to the Minister for Racing's party. Six-figure donations from a single donor split across all the governing parties at once. The policy follows the money. #nzpol

They delayed the new curriculum because teachers are unionised enough to say "this is fucked" without fear of individual repercussions. That's why unions rule

When I attended the ILGA conference last year there was a closed session with the Human Rights Commissioner for the problem cases: Hungary, Albania and the UK. I think this map flatters the UK and we are worse than it shows.

This piece reminds me of the UK press. Very weird articles about some nontroversy accusing a polotician of being out of touch with the very real serious alleged feelings of the elactorate with no evidence at all and a parade of quotes from opposing politicians saying 'yer he hates you'

Some sly square-bracketsing of the Attorney-General's description of his work experience by LawNews lololol lawnews.nz/administrati...

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely

i think my optimism on this is that the public hasn’t shifted ANYWHERE CLOSE to politics or media. Most of what we’re seeing is from a very narrow group, and it doesn’t take too much for that to shift rapidly in the other direction if a powerful voice appears to speak directly to the electorate

If you came here looking for answers on what MBIE's Transition Research fund is, we're trying to find out. On the face of it, the $84.8m per year replaces Marsden + Endeavour and more, which currently total 4 times this much?

sorry, but Hipkins already *literally* got advice from Starmer and HIS advisors - you know, the ones now embattled over Mandelson - and i imagine that any advice he got there would definitely preclude reaching out to Mamdani

"you have to write stories about the robots being nice" hey all those stories about the subservient robot with no needs of her own suddenly getting a bunch of political ideas and being disobedient, hm, maybe wanting her own bank account. do we think that sounds like something that happened recently?

I think people are conceptualising themselves as "industrialising" with AI: that they're increasing their productivity by using capital-intensive machinery. Except they don't own it. If you don't own the factory, you're not the factory owner, you're the factory worker.

What frustrates me most is that for the most part these claims just get amplified without critique, the articles like that below are few and far between, and certainly not pushed to audiences in the same way the latest inane and dysfunctional bigot talking point is

Who burned down Parliament lawn, immigrants or local cookers?

Creators of the Torment Nexus blame author of classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

Could someone please ask the PM if the policies enacted in the UK and the US responding to reactionary beliefs about immigration have reduced social cohesian over the last 10 years or made it a whole lot the fuck worse?

Social stability? Journos need to hammer the shit out of him on this one. Prime Minister, who is causing social instability, immigrants or racists?

It’s always interesting to see how little pushback there is about anti immigrant rhetoric. Not from the media, not from businesses who rely on the workers, not unions, not white friends, not opposition parties like yeah the Greens might but it’s very muted and in the context of “contribution”.

Not Winston; Luxon 🚨It’s happening🚨

We actually do need mainstream media to start effectively calling this out rather than amplifying it CONSTANTLY for better or worse (worse), the 4 main outlets still have an enormous, impactful audience. When they amplify and normalise far right and fascist speech like this, they accelerate it

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

I would consider some passacaglia by JS Bach easily as good as some of the better Final Fantasy theme songs.

“I see there is a housing shortage, which is a great opportunity for me, a Porsche owner, to profit” is a very sympathetic case study, great work here from the Oz

Consider what Clare Curran resigned for. NZ is teetering on the brink of competitive authoritarianism and an alarming number of people are fine with it because they view any alternatives to status quo Pakeha power as aberrant threats to their identity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

has there been a serious investigation into Joseph Mooney's personal attack on an academic yet? Legitimate free speech issue played out on social media by a sitting MP and just... nothing